Initialization and module stuff
------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+/* This routine allocates from 1 to n_devs virtual drivers.
+
+ The real maximum number of virtual drivers will depend on how many drivers
+ will succeed. This is limited to the maximum number of devices that
+ videodev supports. Since there are 64 minors for video grabbers, this is
+ currently the theoretical maximum limit. However, a further limit does
+ exist at videodev that forbids any driver to register more than 32 video
+ grabbers.
+ */
static int __init vivi_init(void)
{
int ret = -ENOMEM, i;
struct vivi_dev *dev;
struct video_device *vfd;
+ if (n_devs <= 0)
+ n_devs = 1;
+
for (i = 0; i < n_devs; i++) {
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (NULL == dev)
+ if (!dev)
break;
- list_add_tail(&dev->vivi_devlist, &vivi_devlist);
-
/* init video dma queues */
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->vidq.active);
init_waitqueue_head(&dev->vidq.wq);
mutex_init(&dev->mutex);
vfd = video_device_alloc();
- if (NULL == vfd)
+ if (!vfd) {
+ kfree(dev);
break;
+ }
*vfd = vivi_template;
ret = video_register_device(vfd, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, video_nr);
- if (ret < 0)
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ video_device_release(vfd);
+ kfree(dev);
+
+ /* If some registers succeeded, keep driver */
+ if (i)
+ ret = 0;
+
break;
+ }
+
+ /* Now that everything is fine, let's add it to device list */
+ list_add_tail(&dev->vivi_devlist, &vivi_devlist);
snprintf(vfd->name, sizeof(vfd->name), "%s (%i)",
vivi_template.name, vfd->minor);
if (ret < 0) {
vivi_release();
printk(KERN_INFO "Error %d while loading vivi driver\n", ret);
- } else
+ } else {
printk(KERN_INFO "Video Technology Magazine Virtual Video "
"Capture Board ver %u.%u.%u successfully loaded.\n",
(VIVI_VERSION >> 16) & 0xFF, (VIVI_VERSION >> 8) & 0xFF,
VIVI_VERSION & 0xFF);
+
+ /* n_devs will reflect the actual number of allocated devices */
+ n_devs = i;
+ }
+
return ret;
}
MODULE_AUTHOR("Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Ted Walther and John Sokol");
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
-module_param(video_nr, int, 0);
+module_param(video_nr, uint, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(video_nr, "video iminor start number");
-module_param(n_devs, int, 0);
+module_param(n_devs, uint, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(n_devs, "number of video devices to create");
module_param_named(debug, vivi_template.debug, int, 0444);